Effects of the cognitive organization of route knowledge on judgments of macrospatial distance

Allen, Gary L.; Kirasic, Kathleen C.

doi:10.3758/bf03197684

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“…Our past research has tended to confirm the findings of ALLEN (1981,1985,1987) and ALLEN and KIRASIC (1985) that route learning usually involves chunking of the routes. These chunks or segments can be sequenced far more effectively than would be the case if one tried to learn the correct sequence of an extremely large number of individual cues that make up each route segment.…”

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Place recognition and wayfinding: Making sense of space

Golledge

1992

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Place recognition and wayfinding: Making sense of space

Golledge

1992

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“…Hund & Plumert, 2003;Presson, 1987), route learning (e.g. Allen & Kirasic, 1985;Cornell & Heth, 2000), large-scale search (e.g. Pellicano et al, 2011;Smith, Hood & Gilchrist, 2005) and map reading (e.g.…”

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The development of path integration: Combining estimations of distance and heading

2013

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Efficient daily navigation is underpinned by path integration, the mechanism by which we use self-movement information to update our position in space. This process is well-understood in adulthood, but there has been relatively little study of path integration in childhood, leading to an underrepresentation in accounts of navigational development. Previous research has shown that calculation of distance and heading both tend to be less accurate in children as they are in adults, although there have been no studies of the combined calculation of distance and heading that typifies naturalistic path integration. In the present study 5-year-olds and 7-year-olds took part in a triangle-completion task, where they were required to return to the startpoint of a multi-element path using only idiothetic information. Performance was compared to a sample of adult participants, who were found to be more accurate than children on measures of landing error, heading error, and distance error. 7-year-olds were significantly more accurate than 5-year-olds on measures of landing error and heading error, although the difference between groups was much smaller for distance error. All measures were reliably correlated with age, demonstrating a clear development of path integration abilities within the age range tested. Taken together, these data make a strong case for the inclusion of path integration within developmental models of spatial navigational processing.

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“…For example, increasing the number of environmental features encountered on a path, the amount of time it takes to travel a path, or the degree of effort expended in traveling a path all lead to a positive bias in distance estimates (Allen, 1981;Allen & Kirasic, 1985;Montello, 1997). The biasing environmental feature that we focus on in the research presented here is the number of turns a route takes.…”

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